کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
888723 913565 2011 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Bringing ethics into focus: How regulatory focus and risk preferences influence (Un)ethical behavior
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی مدیریت، کسب و کار و حسابداری بازاریابی و مدیریت بازار
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Bringing ethics into focus: How regulatory focus and risk preferences influence (Un)ethical behavior
چکیده انگلیسی

In four laboratory studies, we find that regulatory focus induced by situational cues (such as the framing of an unrelated task) or primed influences people’s likelihood to cross ethical boundaries. A promotion focus leads individuals to be more likely to act unethically than a prevention focus (Studies 1, 2, and 3). These higher levels of dishonesty are explained by the influence of a person’s induced regulatory focus on his or her behavior toward risk. A promotion focus leads to risk-seeking behaviors, while a prevention focus leads to risk avoidance (Study 3). Through higher levels of dishonesty, promotion focus also results in higher levels of virtuous behavior (Studies 2 and 3), thus providing evidence for compensatory ethics. Our results also demonstrate that the framing of ethics (e.g., through an organization’s ethics code) influences individuals’ ethical behavior and does so differently depending on an individual’s induced regulatory focus (Study 4).

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes - Volume 115, Issue 2, July 2011, Pages 145–156
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